Blue Bonnet Cafe: Making Room for Pie in Marble Falls
My father, brother and I capped four consecutive barbecue lunches in Texas with a pie stop in Marble Falls. Blue Bonnet Cafe is named for a local flower that lines Hill Country roads in...
Cooper’s Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que: Memories + Mesquite in Llano
We arrived in “the deer capital of Texas” to find a row of motorcycles parked outside Cooper’s and a line of customers near their impressive mesquite smokers. Seven or eight years ago, we ate...
Bertram Smoke Haus: Surprise Texas Barbecue Stop Pays Dividends [CLOSED]
My father, brother and I planned to eat at three Hill Country barbecue restaurants in a row, but stop two had seemingly shut down. No problem. On our windy two-line drive west, we passed...
Schoepf’s Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que: Mixed Blessings in Belton
In Texas Monthly’s last round-up of the Top 50 barbecue spots in the state, Schoepf’s scored big, earning a 4.5 rating out of 5. Schoepf’s definitely lacks the history of Texas’ better-known barbecue establishments....
The Salt Lick BBQ: Overcoming Mother’s Day Mob for ‘Cue
The Salt Lick BBQ has become a Lurie family tradition. My father first ate at the now-legendary Hill Country barbecue establishment while attending grad school at UT in the late ’60s. My father, brother...
